Its main functions are including: to implement the guideline, policy, law, provision and regulation; to draw out the provision and regulation on pollution control of air, water system, soil, noise, solid waste, hazard chemicals and vehicles, etc.; to organize and formulate the building plan of important ecological function conservation area; to be in charge of drawing out and organizing the implementation of policy and plan on pollution control and prevention technology of Jinan; to be responsible for the approval of impact assessment file of construction project; to organize and develop activities of environmental scientific research and science and technology innovation of environmental protection; to take charge of work such as environmental monitoring, statistics, information collection; to carry out the exchange and cooperation on international environmental protection, etc.

Jinan city, also named Spring city, is the provincial capital of the big economic province of China’s eastern coastal-Shandong province, also the political center, economic center, cultural center, science and technology center, education center, and financial center of Shandong. It is national sub-provincial city and coastal open city.

Jinan is next to Mount Tai in south, to Yellow River in north. Its total area is 8177 square kilometers.